When following this thread what I saw in my mind was a "bounty" system,
negotiated between donor and coder, with Lumiera.org merely as a site
where the information gets posted. No overhead, no bureaucrateze, etc.
I believe that is what you are pointing at, Christian, and I might
follow up with that idea on my own for the project I invest most of my
time in, which is OLPC for Bolivia.
One requisite for success here is that "projects" be broken up into
small enough pieces that a single donor, or a small number of them can
make them happen, and they can be requests (I want this done. I offer
$xxx) or proposals (I think this need to get done, and I'll do it. It
will cost $xxx, can someone pitch in?), or suggestions(I think this need
to get done, can someone budget it or get it done as a volunteer).
I guess that what I am saying everyone knows, but as a noob I needed to
spell it out so _I_ could understand it...
Yama
I could imagine to set up an website where donors can make
non-obligatory 'promises' about an amount of money the would offer on a
per-project or general base. When it is forseeable that a goal becomes
realizeable the donors are contacted to acknowlege their offering, when
then enough people acknowledged it, then the thing gets done, means
people can send money in 'acceptable' ways (For me that would be bank
transfer, or maybe I could activate a paypal account, I also need to
checkout this pledgebank.com). When a donation is recieved it is tagged
as that on the website, so everyone can transparently see how it works
and how much money got donated. Maybe it turns out this way that some
'Projects' are not realizeable because there are not enough offerings to
reach the Goal, such projects might then stay uncompleted or withdrawn.
Does this sound ok?
And of course I would be proud if such a system works for others too and
me and my laptop won't be the only thing there. Finally it is always
cool when free software manages to feed some developers, Lumiera is
still far from that, but maybe some day this becomes true.
Christian
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